Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

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Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff
theguardian.com

Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

Just throwing this out - do we include the altitude the plane climbs in its distance traveled?

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.